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Imagine having to buy products so that you can advertise for them for free? If you are wearing a Ridgid Tee shirt, they should give it to you for free and pay you a stipend for wearing it too. This whole world has gone bat crap.

Imagine having to buy products so that you can advertise for them for free? If you are wearing a Ridgid Tee shirt, they should give it to you for free and pay you a stipend for wearing it too. This whole world has gone bat crap.

Your sure a happy one to day,

but I do agree with you on this one,

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Personally, I don't wear anything "branded". About as close as I'll get to that is the "W" sewed into the pocket of my Wranglers. You can't walk anywhere anymore without seeing apparel "labled", like it's some big status to wear that brand! "North Face", "Spaulding", "Addidas"... whatever.

I stopped buying "Land's End" jackets several years ago because it carried their label on the front. I went to LLBean, simply because at least with thier line, it was only stitched in with a matching color, so at least it wasn't advertising from several feet away.

It always cracks me up when I see a car, in which the owner felt it was necessary to have a huge decal covering the back window, announcing that it was "FORD" or whateve. It's like "REALLY... you didn't think anyone could recognize the model?" That falls right in there with the cute bumper sticker and the guy who used to go to all the trouble of putting "Sh!t Happens" on his vehicle.

I picture the guy brooding over the decision for awhile, maybe even going to bed thinking about it. Then he decides one day and hurridly goes down to the auto store and picks out the letters... "hmmm honey what do you think... would black be better than white, or maybe I should go with the red to match the truck, no, no, no... that might blend in... yeah White would be better!"

Then he picks out just the right size, and maybe puzzles over the letter style, and then slaps down his hard-earned money (or welfare change). He goes home and spends the afternoon and a couple of beer positioning each letter just right, trys his best to get it on straight with no blisters. The when he's all done he stands back and admires his work, call the wife and kids out and maybe invites the neighbor to take a look..... AHHHH, "SH!T HAPPENS". (Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.)

In case you couldn't tell, it's a pet peeve of mine!

I don't like labels,

CWS

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It should be a pet peeve of everybody. The guy that figured out he could get sheep to not only pay twice what their crappy product is worth and gladly and freely advertise the crap product too was a freekin genious. Oooooh everybody, look at me, I'm wearing a crappy Lands End jacket along with a half a billion other sheep....baaaaaaahhhhhh baaaaaaaaahhhhhhh lead us to the slaughter

Check with your ridgid store rep, he should be able to hook you up, or give you the shirt off his back.

Rick.

Rick we are still holding our breath for the "Roundup Downunder". Also if our rep was to give us the shirt off his back we could setup a marquee for the homeless. Mind you he is too tight to even give away handshake.

I'm right in line with NH. To buy a product that advertises that company is ludacris.

Not necessarily. Once you're an established business, they sell their theme related products. Look at shirts and hats from any restaurant chain. Some sell at close to cost and others at high markups. Some even have a storefront setup.

Ridgid does give out plenty of goodies at their trade shows, road shows. Including shirts, hats, calendars some even autographed by the model, pens, catalogs.

It's when you're new or not established, you might give away promotional items.

I'm sure his local rep has some goodies in his vehicle to give away.

I have certain customers always asking me for a ridgid calendar. When I get them from the trade shows, I give them away. Yet go onto ebay and see what people are selling them for.